Word: ren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...motors were roaring. M. le Capitaine René Fonck had thrown away his last cigaret,* waved his last diffident adieu and sat at the controls. By him sat Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin, aide to Rear Admiral William A. Moffett of the U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. The S-35 lumbered forward. The crowd raced beside...
Died. Charles Clavier, 33, French radio operator; at Roosevelt Field, Westbury, L. I., in the crash of Captain René Fonck's giant Sirkorsky plane (see p. 32). His body will be taken back to Paris...
...table beside the court the celebrated Davis Cup caught a waning sun. Its presence was not significant. On the third day of the series the U. S., acquiring the necessary three points, had made sure of retaining it: William Johnston .had beaten René Lacoste, Tilden had beaten Jean Borotra, Vincent Richards and R. Norris Williams had won their doubles match from Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon. But a great issue was in the balance, and Tilden, as he put down the towel and prepared to receive Lacoste's service, was quite aware that this issue might be swayed...
...Fonck-Fonck, Fonck-Fonck! For weeks the press has been full of the ace of allied aces, M. le Capitaine René Fonck, who came to the U. S. to fly from Long Island to Paris for a $25,000 prize offered by Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Manhattan, (TIME...
...week in Brookline, Mass., most observers were ready to agree that the two best doubles players in the U. S. were probably a pair of Frenchmen. There was Henri ("Ricochet") Cochet and his excitable partner, Jacques Brugnon, champions of France and winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being allied with the world's champion...